Recent content by HS44

This 78' 20R motor has the 2 row timing chain with about 60K miles on it. I always check and adjust valve lash every other oil change and sometimes more frequently and when I do, it usually only needs a very slight adjustment on one or 2 valves. I do valve lash adjustment very carefully and...

That is close to the same MPG I was getting with the 4 speed before the MPG began slowly decreasing. It was getting about 16.6 - 17.4 MPG on Freeway depending on headwind and when I was careful to keep vacuum pressure as high as possible while traveling @ reasonably fast speeds for road and...

Thanks to moderator/s the thread did get moved here to the correct forum.👍👍👍

My questions are based on installing, (or not?), an Air Fuel Ratio Gauge Kit so I can both fine-tune the Weber carburetor and also monitor the AFR when I am driving. Note 1: If the exhaust system was like more common ones, I would definitely install one, so I am questioning if I should get one...

Wops! :doh: I was was also looking at another thread and had it remembered wrong. Sorry about that. :oops: Anyway, I do like your restoration project. Anyway, I also had to get a bit 'creative' to remove one of the leaf spring shackles too. Must be rather common for them to 'refuse' to be...

Nice recondition Steve! 👍👍. What happened to the photos of the bare frame with the cross-member? Thanks for posting your recondition. Keep up the good work and please post more when you can.

Thanks pappy! :clap: That answers my question and as a bonus, it is the answer I wanted to hear!:cheers::beer:

Thanks gnob. Just to be sure, I need to clarify my question a bit because there is still a question in my mind on this. The Bell Housing I do have is supposed to have been pulled from a stock 2wd 1987 Pickup. The transmission was supposed to be a G54 as I ordered, but it is not a G54. Instead...

The transmission swap is, (mechanically speaking), going to be for a 1978 Toyota Long Bed Pickup. The fiberglass Chinook pop top camper was permanently bolted onto the frame by the Chinook company that built the Chinook Camper from new. In essence, the camper shell was mounted onto a Rolling...

Thanks Josey1972 for your response. Thank to all of you who have given the thumbs-up likes. I will start another thread with my transmission swap upgrade questions. It should be on the forum sometime today. P.S. I guess I should make some sort of an Avatar because the H inside the green...

Hi there all!! I just read that this forum is for 95 and older but only noticed that after spending lost of time writing my introduction to the forum that 79 Y/M is oldest for being 'older' than 95 Y/M as is mentioned. I ask for forgiveness in advance because what I have is a 1978 and it is a...